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20 things for your 20th birthday // cute & personal DIY birthday present

by stickysituation

It’s the year of turning 20. At least it is in my friend group, which means I have had to come up with some gift ideas for all of my wonderful friends.

One of my ideas is this easy-to-make jar of things I love about my best friend, the other is an equally simple jar of my favourite memories with my best friend. And as most of my friends are turning 20, I came up with 20 items for each jar.

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YOU WILL NEED:

  • 1 jar
  • Scissors
  • hole puncher
  • 1 pen
  • patterned sheets of paper (you will need 20 little notes)
  • some kind of string/ribbon in a chosen colour (for reference, look at the photos below)
  • some chocolate or candy with cute wrappers
  • optional: letter stickers

TO-DO:

Step 1

Cut 20 little pieces of paper, ideally as big as a credit card out of the patterned sheets of paper and old them in half. Write 20 personal things about your best friend on them and stick them into the jar.

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Step 2

Additionally, cut an extra piece of paper, punch a hole in a corner (optional: stick your friend’s first name initial onto the front side) and write a short and sweet message to your friend – this will serve as the label.

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Step 3

Fill the jar with your chosen chocolates and sweets (I tried to stick with a colour theme for both jars). If you want to stick to the theme, fill the jar with exactly 20 sweets.

Please note: if you fill your jar with chocolate sweets, store it in a cool place in order to keep them from melting.

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Step 4

Take your ribbon or string, loop it into the hole of your label and tie it around your jar. Close the jar and voilà!

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And that concludes this quick and easy DIY birthday present!

✰ Do you like this idea? Have you done something similar yourself? ✰

Let me know!

 

32 thoughts on “20 things for your 20th birthday // cute & personal DIY birthday present”

  1. I must be your friend then because i also turned 20 this year😸 ,and this is such a cute and wonderful idea 👏

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    1. YAY haha! I turn 20 in May… for some reason something about the number 20 makes me a little nervous (but in a good way). I’m sure I won’t feel any different when I enter my 20s, it’s just such big number to me for some reason. Anyway, thank you so much, I’m glad you like it!

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      1. That’s good ,my best friend turned 20 in May ….it’s normal to feel nervous in fact I dreaded the day coming but it was March so oh well ,and yeah it’s pretty much the same except you’re treated as an adult

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  3. Omg thats the cutest thing ever! I’ll my friends have already turned twenty so now I’m regretting not doing something creative and cute like this Fiona!! x

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  10. This is such a cute idea, Fiona!! Hmmm it’s pretty freaky because most of my friends turn 20 this year and I turn 20 in a few months… anyways, I’m probably gonna end up using this idea as a Christmas gift because it’s so unique 🤗

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